Star Wars: The Old Republic “Deceived” Cinematic Trailer and Interview

As part of their 10th anniversary celebrations, BioWare brings us an upscaled cinematic trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic that sold quite a few of us on the idea of a Star Wars MMORPG that wasn’t Star Wars: Galaxies. Check it out:

You might also want to read this PC Gamer interview with the game’s creative director Charles Boyd that mainly focuses on the upcoming Legacy of the Sith expansion and the game’s future. Here’s a quick excerpt:

I’ll inevitably be making some more alts, but what I really want is more class stories. That’s asking a lot for an expansion, of course. Most of them have had two distinct paths—Empire and Republic—with the exception of the Fallen Empire and Eternal Throne expansions, which had a single storyline with lots of smaller branches. Throwing class stories back into the mix would bump that up to eight. It’s not very realistic.

“I think it’s unlikely that we would ever go in a direction where now it’s eight completely separate storylines for several years,” says Boyd. “That’s just so many different things to keep track of, and to produce. It’s literally eight times the work, right? Not quite eight times the voiceover, but it is a lot. But that said, we’re always looking for chances to kind of call out your class versus someone else’s, or your background versus someone else’s, in any of the stories we do.”